tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post5422067160631626289..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Power CorruptsSJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-34558633109849949512019-06-21T12:58:43.068-05:002019-06-21T12:58:43.068-05:00I think it's pretty clear McKay went into this...I think it's pretty clear McKay went into this with his conclusion reached and his research focused on confirming that conclusion. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85604059962048888692019-06-21T12:57:24.183-05:002019-06-21T12:57:24.183-05:00I think it makes a very good case for treating Rum...I think it makes a very good case for treating Rumsfeld, Cheney, and several others as war criminals.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-57695841275331542702019-06-21T12:56:51.009-05:002019-06-21T12:56:51.009-05:00I'd be very curious to hear your take on it. I...I'd be very curious to hear your take on it. I think it's not merely polarizing, but potentially partisan. SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-88051104935308458382019-06-19T17:46:03.796-05:002019-06-19T17:46:03.796-05:00I though Adam McKay allowed the deserved success o...I though Adam McKay allowed the deserved success of The Big Short to get to his head on this one. It's just too glib.aceblackblog.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08404695143187261837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-85287342740285740962019-06-17T08:34:31.814-05:002019-06-17T08:34:31.814-05:00I saw Vice very late in 2018, and it was my favori...I saw Vice very late in 2018, and it was my favorite movie of 2018. but then I saw The Favourite a few weeks later, and The Favourite became my favorite.<br /><br />But Vice is still pretty impressive. Bale, Adams and Rockwell are all really persuasive, and Steve Carell may not look like Rumsfeld, but I found his performance very entertaining anyway. He acted more like he walked in from an SNL skit. (Though, to be fair, that whole administration was more than ripe for all the mockery it's received).Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17921029597363212734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-91969119517011192242019-06-16T03:21:19.721-05:002019-06-16T03:21:19.721-05:00For what it's worth, I don't think your bl...For what it's worth, I don't think your blog has a problem with delicate, insecure, easily triggered conservatives (or liberals, for that matter) who can't stand the notion that someone might hold—gasp!—a different opinion. That's at least partly thanks to your own measured way of handling the occasional political issue, I'd say; you've done a fine job of creating a commenter community here composed of good folks who offer nothing but smart, constructive remarks (I'll exclude myself from that number since I know I often swoop in just to deliver a dumb one-liner). I envy that, frankly. I have a tiny cluster of semi-regular commenters on my blog, and they span the political spectrum, but a lot of them seem to hate each other, and I <i>have</i> had to delete certain comments as a result.<br /><br />Anyway, about the movie: I only ever saw the preview, and I was surprised to see how much Bale resembled Cheney. Bale would never, in a million years, have been my choice to play Cheney, so kudos to the Michelangelo of a casting director who beheld Christian Bale, the uncarved block of marble, and saw a Dick Cheney within. I also would never have made the connection between Sam Rockwell and Dubya, but once I saw Rockwell on the screen, I could see how his droopy-faced expressions might evoke the Dubster.<br /><br />So you're saying this was a good movie, eh? I'll put it on my list. Thanks.Kevin Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01328790917314282058noreply@blogger.com